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...American Legion conventioneers in Philadelphia were dying of a mysterious illness. Eventually, DISEASE DETECTIVES would discover the cause to be a bacterium spread through air-conditioning systems, but until then, near panic took hold...
...whose family owns 40% of the voting shares. The knock is that Bill Ford has neither the experience nor the mettle to make the tough decisions--on everything from plant closings to new-car programs--required to pull Ford Motor out of the ditch. Ford's much broader legion of admirers, who range from union bosses to the president of the Sierra Club, say his savvy and his rare blend of guts and grace point to success...
...Taliban is so tenacious, consider this: some of its frontline troops are the same sort of men who steered planes into buildings on Sept. 11. The key to the regime's resistance is a shadowy band of Arab holy warriors trained by Osama bin Laden--a fundamentalist foreign legion known as Brigade...
...Taliban time to militarily exploit the assassination before the U.S. and NATO could prop up the alliance. And bin Laden hardly needs to cement an already cozy relationship with the Taliban. Since 1996, he has supplied the Afghan militia with both funds and firepower. Among a Taliban foreign legion of some 10,000 is a powerful and still growing contingent of 2,500 to 3,000 Arabs personally loyal to bin Laden. If the two attacks were indeed linked it seems more likely they came as a furious double-barreled blast at bin Laden's principal enemies: the man stubbornly...
...That $18 billion in increased military spending? Prime rib. Mmm. Voters love it. "The biggest increase in military spending since Ronald Reagan was commander-in-chief," Bush bragged to a very receptive gathering of the American Legion in San Antonio. "I will not permit any course that leaves America undefended." And you know that includes missile defense, some pay raises and increased health benefits for military folk, and "building the military of the future...